Guest wrote: ↑07 Nov 2020, 18:34
Do you think Trump can really continue for months to deny the results? Question from a very moved Frenchwoman that you finally throw that pig out?
He can keep yelling that all the ballots were "fake," and he can try to file some suits, but his legal team is a joke and thus far he's been more or less laughed out of court, even by conservative judges. Key Republicans like Moscow Mitch have made it clear that they're not going to back up an attempt to get the results invalidated. It's simply not in their interests to stick with Trump in attempting a coup and undermining electoral stability, which would be bad for business and they're probably still going to have the Senate anyway.
There's also some shenanigans he can attempt with the actual electors that are confusing even for most Americans who pay attention to politics, like basically, my understanding is that he can try to convert some "faithless electors" to vote for him even though they're assigned to vote for Biden based on the election, or he can try to convince some state legislatures that their state election was fraudulent and to just appoint their own electors again. But none of this has never actually happened to the point of putting a different president in office and it's clear at this point that the GOP establishment is not willing to commit to this, so it won't be taken seriously.
He may be delusional enough to try all of this anyway, and I'll be surprised if he ever concedes even though that's what every other unsuccessful candidate has done once the results are undeniable, but he doesn't need to. The processes to begin to transfer power will go on anyway whatever he says. Of course, he can cause plenty of trouble for the next two months while he is still president, and I'm sure he will.